Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Dr. Glory Van Scott and The Riverside Theatre present Dr. Glory's Youth Theatre in an original musical - The Children's Garden and Wishing Stone! A wonderful, heartfelt story where the community learns that to give to others is the best part of receiving! Get your FREE tickets athttp://drglory.eventbrite.com/

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Terry Baker Mulligan wins!

2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards Results

16th Annual Awards to be Celebrated in New York on June 4th

Congratulations and sincere thanks to over 2,400 independent authors and publishers who participated in our 16th annual, 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards contest. The awards ceremony to honor the medalists will take place on June 4th in New York, on the eve of the Book Expo America convention.

This year's entry totals are the biggest ever, with 4,813 print book entries, 390 e-book entries, and an average category size of 50. The largest category was Memoir, with 213 entries; the smallest was Classical Studies, with just 8 entries. IPPY medals go to entrants from 44 U.S. states plus D.C., 7 Canadian provinces, and 10 countries overseas.

Here are the results of this year's awards, starting with the gold, silver and bronze medalists in our 74 National categories, followed by the Regional category medalists, our Outstanding Books of the Year, and for the first time, E-Book categories.

Using
Harlem’s famous cultural institutions and memorable characters as her backdrop,
Terry Baker Mulligan writes joyously about weathering adolescence, while
history unfolds
around her in the legendary neighborhood called Sugar Hill.

This feel-good story resonates with humor, warmth and wisdom as
Mulligan chronicles her life among flamboyant evangelists, curly-haired Doo-Wop
boys, snuff-dippers, Fidel Castro’s entourage, interracial marriages, chitlin’
parties and testy interactions between West Indian immigrants and Southern
blacks.

Meet Mr. Big B, the neighborhood numbers banker; join Terry at
Apollo matinees, where she is dazzled by Ella, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dinah
Washington, Miriam Makeba, Eartha Kitt, and R&B newcomers like Frankie
Lymon and the Teenagers. Neighborhood luminaries stroll the sidewalks: Mr. and
Mrs. Thurgood Marshall with baby carriage; Sugar Ray Robinson exiting his pink
Cadillac; and Malcolm X and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., politicking on the street
corners. Young Terry befriends baseball’s Willie Mays in the local shoeshine
parlor, paints posters for the 1957 March on Washington, and tries, but fails,
to ingratiate herself into junior black society.

Sugar Hill is a living document of mid
20th-century Harlem.
The story it tells will appeal to an America that knows the tremendous shaping
influence
Harlem has exerted on its national identity, both at home and around the globe.

Copies of
“Sugar Hill” will be on sale at the theatre,
and purchased copies will be signed by
the author